The Miser

portrait

The initials "HP." with which the painting is signed for a long time deceived critics into thinking its author was Horatius Paulyn. At the beginning of the twentieth century the painting's attribution was changed in favour of Pot.

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About the Artist

Hendrick Gerritsz Pot

1580 – 1657

Dutch painter, a pupil of Karl van Mander. He probably came into contact with Frans Hals, whose large-scale genre scenes he sometimes imitated. His artistic production, however, was oriented towards portraits and small-sized genre paintings. The small genre scenes in carefully worked-out interiors show their debt to Willem Buytewech.

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